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Towards The Collective Collection: Lessons Learned From Palci’S Dda Pilot Projects And Next Steps, Jeremy Garskof, Jill Morris, Tracie Ballock, Scott Anderson
Towards The Collective Collection: Lessons Learned From Palci’S Dda Pilot Projects And Next Steps, Jeremy Garskof, Jill Morris, Tracie Ballock, Scott Anderson
Collaborative Librarianship
The Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) developed demand-driven acquisition (DDA) programs to facilitate resource sharing of e-monographs and to build collective ebook collections thereby complementing E-ZBorrow, the consortium’s print-based ILL service. Committed to perpetual ownership, PALCI’s programs deliberately eschewed aggregator models with STL (short term lease/ loan) thresholds in favor of purchasing upon the first substantial use at a negotiated multiplier. This unique approach to consortial DDA resulted in hundreds of titles triggered for purchase, many of which experienced post-purchase usage across the membership. It also resulted in irregular starts and stops and workflow frustrations illustrating challenges related to …